Nevada County picayune., 1887-08-25
LETTER TO CRANK.


 prince of darkness, that after he had so so fallen he hy by some meahS came to this earth, and by | false representation induced two | innocent bringS, who had been ! given dominion over all things on : earth, aud who were coutentcd and 1 happy, 10 believe he had some thing better i'll store for them, and 1 led them to disobey the command oi Deity, whereby they brought upon themselves and posterty the curse of the Creator.
 We are taught that subsequent to thiS the devil was imprisoned, but Was to be permitted to return to the earth al a distant period. From what we see and read we are iuclimel to believe that time has arrived and that his satanic majesty is again abroad in the land, sowing the seeds of strife and sedition, and fear you have be cone one of his mouth peices.
 Our great Teacher tells us that we are to have false prophets and warns Us to avoid them, and also those who by their teachings ill., cite sedition.
 You have been for years telling l the people that the country was going to the devil by long and swift strides, and that it's only ref uge from disaster and ruin was for the people to abandon the old land marks and fall down and wor- shIp at your shrine. But the peo- pie see through your false teach ings, and know there is no founda- ton for the alarm bells that YOU are ringing in their ears, and re. fuse, as they should, Lo follow you.
 You are kind enough to refer nle of Jefferson and others copied in the Dispatch. am sorry that you do not mention the fact that the letters of MT. Jefferson from which you make extracts, were all written during and immediately following the war of 1872, when the treasury was depleted and the nation in great peril, And you know too. If you have read these letters, that those suggestions of Mr. Jefferson to issne treasury notes, were for the purpose of meeting the emergency then upon the country. Money could not be . borrowed and the issue of treaSu. ry notes seemed the only way out oi the difficulty. There was no man in his day more opposed to paper money as permanent cir , culatlno medium than was MT. lief. ferson. As proof of this l refer you to his letter to MT. Epps, of date June 24, 1913, from winch you make your first extracts, V. vi. P l37 (not F P 10; fl as you have iO in which he says "Every one knows, that although not lit- erally. il is nearly true, that every paper dollar emitted banishes a silver one from circulation. A na. ton, therefore. makin. it's pur- chases and payments with bills fit. ted for circulation. thrusts an equal sum of coin out of cir. culation.' And m every instance, where Mir. Jefferson has suggested the use of treasury notes, he has also insisted that tax be levied for their redemption at the earliest moment practicable. He never in- timated as you know that the treasury notes should be made d legal tender. or be used as per. manent circul ,ting medium. and the letters from which you have made extracts show this. You for. get to tell Il, where and when Mir Calhoun made the speech from which you make extracts. This is wrong, Crank. You ought to tell the people where to find it. You say you would be glad to publish this speech. l wish you would do so. It will serve to show how you are trying to mislead the people. In this speech MT. Calhoun, like Mir. Jefferson, suggested this tenn porary use of treasury warrants in order to enable the country to meet the pressure then upon it.. He would not have them made a legal tender, but when issued they were to be paid to such of the cred itors of the government as would receive them and were to be re- deemed and retired from circula- tiOn at the earliest moment prac- ticable-not Co be made perma- nent circulating medium, nor le- gal tender as you would have them. So by your writings and teachings you are placing both Mir. Jefferson and Mir. Calhoun in false light.
 But, Crank, you fail to tell us when and to whom Mr. Tilden wrote that letter, directing that the democratic platform be made as near like the republican as possi. ble etc. Did you forget that! Do ] tell us about it. Then own up, and tell the people that Jefferson was hard money democrat, and that he denied the power of the government to make paper money legal tender; and that yourself and others who favor paper money as a circulating medium and le. gal tender have no right to call yourselves Jefferson democrats.